The Civilians’ Movement “ Ammoxostos Epistrefo” and its Facebook Group named “KAIROS NA PAROUME PISO THN AMMOXOSTO” were established today on April 8, 2011.

Our dreams were shuttered on July 1974. Thirty seven years have gone by, already, and we are still waiting to return back home, suitcases at hand, looking through barbed wires at our city, Famagusta.

The time has come, the idea has matured… we, civilians of Famagusta, have to show that we actually want to go back to our roots.

We, hereby, invite all of you, who share the same vision and the same desire, to embrace this independent civilian movement that will be kept away from personal, financial or political interests and ideologies or any affiliation to political parties. The Movement will be one where we will all join hands and voices and demand what is rightfully our own and fight for our human rights, addressing equally, the Greek-Cypriots as well as the Turkish-Cypriots.

The purpose of the Movement and the FB Group is to drastically motivate civilians to take action towards the revival of the Famagusta issue, by firstly and fore mostly aiming at the return of the Famagusta secluded city. Our target is to claim Famagusta not as plain visitors but as its lawful inhabitants.

Together we can set the way and demand the return of Famagusta, now a ghost - town, however still there, still alive… alive and waiting for us, its inhabitants, for the past 37 years.